Pleasant Quotes - Page 12

• Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Death, Color, Design

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• It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

  David Bowie

  Would Be, Needs, Attention

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

  Lord Byron

  Book, Names, Literature

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

  Meg Cabot

  Nice, Rifles, Meg

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Sanctuary”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hard Work, Suffering, Reform

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• I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nice, Balance, President

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

  Dick Cavett

  Mind, Television, Radio

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• Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love Is, Reason, Amusing

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1973). “Chamfort maxims: anecdotes, personalities, letters, historical writings, etc”

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• I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Gun, Careers, Atheism

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• Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

  Michael Crawford

  Divorce, Different, Looks

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• If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

  John Cusack

  Movie, Nice, Reading

  "John Cusack: 'I like to take risks'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

  Charles Dickens

  Baby, Answers, World

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.347

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• I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

  Jim Elliot

  Principles, Lord, Impulse

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• Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

  Mel Gibson

  Disappointment, Sacrifice, Joy

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• The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, College, Mind

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• When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

  Oliver Herford

  Inspirational, Funny, Boston

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• The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Liberty, Comfort

  Der Steppenwolf (1927) "Tractat vom Steppenwolf" (Treatise on the Steppenwolf)

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• A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Peace, Malcontent

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving, Feelings, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

  Homer

  Fear, Men, Intimate

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• It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Ivory, Pleasant Surprises, Ends

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• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  Victor Hugo

  Doe, Action, Commit

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• It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Stupid, Silly

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.56, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

  Steve Jobs

  Educational, Mean, Sweat

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• You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Tired, Somewhere Else, People

  "Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

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